Weariness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FDFD GHGH AIAI JCJC AKAK LMLM| Snowy sails silvery sails | A |
| Gleaming in the sun | B |
| Leaving scores of jewelled trails | A |
| In the course you run | B |
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| On your white wings bear away | C |
| All my care and pain | D |
| I would for at least to day | C |
| Be a child again | E |
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| Just to thrill with youthful fire | F |
| Kindling heart and brain | D |
| Just to know the old desire | F |
| Lofty heights to gain | D |
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| Just to hold the simple faith | G |
| Into which I grew | H |
| When my God was not a wraith | G |
| And all men were true | H |
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| Shadowed sails clouded sails | A |
| Life hath made me know | I |
| That you leave no jewelled trails | A |
| Proudly though you go | I |
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| Drops that floods of diamonds seem | J |
| Are but dazzling spray | C |
| Fleeting as a happy dream | J |
| Swift to fade away | C |
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| Distant sails waning sails | A |
| Waft me to some shore | K |
| Where corroding care prevails | A |
| Never nevermore | K |
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| Where the flotsam of the deep | L |
| Finds its wanderings cease | M |
| And the shipwrecked sink to sleep | L |
| On the strand of peace | M |
John L. Stoddard
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